| 100% | TRUELOVE | 8 | What "never runs smooth," in a 1963 Gene Pitney hit |
| 40% | LOUIE | 5 | Name repeated in a 1963 hit song |
| 39% | SOFINE | 6 | "He's" this, in a 1963 hit for the Chiffons |
| 38% | DUNKIN | 6 | What "America runs on," in a franchise slogan |
| 38% | ADIDAS | 6 | Title sneaker brand in a Run-D.M.C. hit |
| 37% | ONEFINEDAY | 10 | When "you're gonna want me for your girl," in a 1963 hit |
| 36% | RBI | 3 | What a hit might earn in baseball: Abbr. |
| 36% | MTA | 3 | What Charlie rides, in a 1959 hit |
| 35% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 35% | WENTYARD | 8 | Hit a home run, in baseball lingo |
| 35% | LASTLEG | 7 | What the anchor runs, in a relay |
| 35% | QUIT | 4 | What winners never do, in a saying |
| 34% | SANDED | 6 | Smoothed in a shop |
| 34% | SANDS | 5 | Smooths in a woodshop |
| 33% | HOMERUN | 7 | In baseball, a hit that enables the batter to run round all four bases |
| 33% | AARONJUDGE | 10 | Yankees slugger who hit a record-setting 62 home runs in 2022 |
| 33% | SWISHER | 7 | Yankee Nick who hit a home run in the 2009 World Series |
| 33% | MYSIDE | 6 | What "time is on" in a 1964 Rolling Stones hit |
| 33% | DIE | 3 | What you should never say, in a sense? |
| 33% | CLOCK | 5 | What a mouse ran up, in a rhyme |
| 32% | RINGOFFIRE | 10 | What "burns, burns, burns" in a hit country song |
| 32% | CAT | 3 | Jennyanydots or Munkustrap, in a long-running Broadway hit |
| 32% | MARKMCGWIRE | 11 | A's/Cardinals slugger who hit the most home runs in the 1990s (405): 2 wds. |
| 32% | NOTHING | 7 | What "compares 2 U" in a 1990 #1 Sinead O'Connor hit |
| 32% | LIE | 3 | What hips don't do, in a Shakira hit |
| 32% | HEFNER | 6 | Defendant in a 1963 obscenity trial |
| 32% | BIRDS | 5 | Threat in a 1963 Hitchcock film |
| 32% | SLEEKLY | 7 | In a smooth manner |
| 32% | MEN | 3 | What "it's raining" in a classic dance hit by the Weather Girls |
| 31% | MARYTRAVERS | 11 | Folk singer who, in a trio with Peter and Paul, sang the 1963 hit "Puff, the Magic Dragon": 2 wds. |